Category: sql server

Silverlight/WPF

• Calling Services From Silverlight 2 – Part 2 (Tim Heuer)
• More Than Just MVC for WPF and Generic.xaml in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 for WPF Developers (Marlon Grech)
• Slides From Silverlight For Business Applications Webcast (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 2 Navigating Between Xaml Pages (Sean)

Visual Studio

• Better Project Management with Team Foundation Server (Charles Sterling)
• Five VS2008 Smart Client Features (Daniel Moth)

SharePoint

• The What’s New Web Part for SharePoint 2007 (Jan Tielens)

.NET

• .NET Event Techniques (Rob Eisenberg)
• Strategy Pattern (Prasanna)
• Free Book Preview for C# 3.0 (Dilip Krishnan)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 104 – Dave Laribee on ALT.NET (Scott Hanselman)
• Workflow Foundation 101 and The Power of Custom Workflow Activities (Part 1) (Maurice de Beijer)

SQL Server

• Performance Effect of Common Table Expressions in SQL Server 2005 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Reduce Code and Server Roundtrips (Paul Delcogliano) – Takes a look at table-valued parameters in SQL Server 2008.

Web Development

• More on GZip Compression with ASP.NET Content (Rick Strahl)
• WebDev.WebServer PowerShell Function (Harry Pierson)
• ASP.NET Basics: Foundation of ASP.NET (Mike Dopp)

Miscellaneous

• Word 2007: Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification, v1.9.1 (MS Downloads)
• Add-On Management Improvements in IE8 (Christopher Vaughan)
• 55 Minutes Inside Microsoft Research’s New “#99” Building (Robert Scoble)
• The First Rule of Programming: It’s Always Your Fault (Jeff Atwood)
• The Wall of Fail (Dan Previte) – Great stuff. Have to implement this practice.
• Why Windows 7 Might Go to Pieces (Mary Jo Foley)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-03-20) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for March 20, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Morning Coffee 159 (Harry Pierson)
• Links (3/20/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Link Listing – March 20, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Visual Studio Links #12 (Darren Stokes)

Book of the Day

Silverlight/WPF

• New Devs4Devs Video – A Step By Step Guide to Silverlight DeepZoom (Dave Isbitski)
• Tip of the Day – Binding to a Collection and Source for Tip of the Day (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 2 Developer Poster (Brad Abrams)
• WPF Snippets (Rudi Grobler)

.NET

• Do You Use VB Late Binding? If so, how? (Rocky Lhotka)
• Mashups with SyndicationFeed and LINQ (K. Scott Allen)
• C# 4: Immutable Type Initialization (Jon Skeet)
• The Method You Didn’t Know You Needed (Mads Kristensen)

Misc

• Review – xUnit Test Patterns (Jimmy Bogard)
• JetBrains Omea Goes Open Source (dotnetproject)

SQL Server

• Touch/Peel/Stand, then Try/Catch/Raise (Kevin Goff)
• Nonclustered Index Keys (Kalen Delaney)

Events/Community

• philly.net Meeting: March 19, Microsoft Malvern, MIX Report and Building Good UX with .NET

Web Development

• MSN Search SDK Beta (MS Downloads)

Link Collections

• Visual Studio Links #10 (Darren Stokes)
• Links Today (2008-03-16) (Matt Hinze)
• Weekly Link Post 33 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (3/16/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #54 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day